Page 4439 - Week 14 - Thursday, 1 December 1994
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MR CONNOLLY: I apologise. Mrs Carnell appears to be a fool for what she has done. Mr Moore was just interjecting to say that I have no compassion for people dying of AIDS. That is a contemptible allegation, and the AIDS community will regard him as a grub for politicising this issue.
Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, on a point of order - - -
Mr Moore: It is true. You have proved it yourself.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! We have a point of order.
Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, I think it is slightly inappropriate for the Chair of the Assembly to be suggesting insults that might be used by members against other members. I would ask you - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, you have misunderstood me. I asked for withdrawal of "a fool" because people have drawn that to my attention in points of order. If you take objection to "appears to be a fool", let me say that it was not my instruction to him to call her that. Mr Connolly will now withdraw that. Please withdraw that, Mr Connolly.
MR CONNOLLY: I withdraw that. I am pleased to see the level of Mrs Carnell's counterinterjection, which I will not seek to have withdrawn. I do, however, take exception to Mr Moore's grubby interjections; but I think the community will judge Mr Moore by what he is saying. I regard people living with HIV as very important members of our community - too important to be made guineapigs by these uncontrolled, unsupervised, unstructured researchers.
Mr Moore: Like Dr Rowland, who wants to treat patients who are dying with AIDS?
MR CONNOLLY: As I told you on Monday, if any doctor has a serious research proposal, they can come and see me, and I will issue the appropriate approval under the appropriate - - -
Mr Moore: Will you fund it, Terry Connolly?
MR CONNOLLY: You never asked me about funding, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: I did, indeed.
MR CONNOLLY: You did not.
Mr Moore: You said no.
MR CONNOLLY: You are squirming.
Mr Moore: Tell me now. Will you fund it?
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